Introduction

An eye-popping 20 videos from DotAll 2018 kick off this issue. Those alone are enough to fill your November, but that's just the kick off. We've got Craft 2 and 3 updates, peaks at Craft 3.1, plugins and more.

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News

In 3.0.28, you can now create Structure sections with entry propagation disabled. Also, as of 3.0.29, URL fields now have “Placeholder Text” settings. Of course there's more than that. Check the changelog for the details.

Craft 3.1 development is humming along. It will allow "using environment variables in a ton of Control Panel settings—complete with autosuggestions". Want more? How about "template path autosuggestions" too.

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Perfecting your technique

Ben keeps adding to his course on plugin development at CraftQuest. The course is free when you sign up for a free account, so if you've got an idea for a plugin, this is a perfect to help you get it built. (Did I mention it’s free?)

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Use Spoon to group Matrix blocks, hide blocks and / or fields, and organise your block layouts with tabs. Spoon lets you have different configurations for different contexts - you could have one Matrix field for all your block types, then choose which sections they appear in.

Spoon even works with Super Table so you can get super inception-y with a Matrix > Super Table > Matrix combo and tightly control the UI as much as you need.